Foot-rest for car-seats



(-No Model.)

. W. M. NOROROSS.

FOOT BEST FOR GAR SEATS.

NO."6 05,1,Z4. Patented Ju e-7,1898.

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I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM onoiiojss or .PI-nLADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIeN'oR TO THE HALE a KILBURN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, on PENNSYLVANIA.

' 'FOO-T-REST FOR CAR-SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 605,124, dated June '7, 1898.

Application filed July 28, 1897- To all whom it may concern. I

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. Nononoss, of the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improve ment in Foot-Rests for Oar-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to foot-rests for car-, seats; and it consists of the improvements which are fully described in'the following specification and are shown in the accompanying drawings. 7

It is the object of my invention to provide a foot-rest for a car-seat of such a character that it will leave the front portion of the floorspace below the seat free and unobstructed,

so that it may be used for stowing away bag-- gage and packages. 7 g

It is also an object of my invention to pro'- vide a rocking foot-rest of such 1 character that it'may be rocked to lower the bar in the rear of the seat in position to act as a foot rest for'the occupants 'of the rear seat and to elevatethe'jbar iatithe'front of the seat, so as to leave the floor-space clear,and to lock the rear bar at a slight distance above the floor, so that it cannot be further lowered from-the rear. i

In carrying out my invention I support a rocking-foot-rest frame npon supports by means of a fulcrum, having provision for automatically-locking the lowered end. of the rock-.

7 ing-foot-rest frame againstf urther downward movement when it has descended to a given extent.

In the preferredembodiment of my inven-. tion I support the foot-rest frame upon the supports, on which it rests and is adapted to rock by means of supporting pins or lugs engaging trifurcate slotsjprgrooves. V

In the drawings,-Eigure l is anend elevae tion of a car-seat embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a-horizontal sectional---view ofthe same on the line m at of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional-view on the line y y of Fig.5. 4

A A are the usualside frames, which may be of any suitable construction. V

Bis, the rockingfoot -rest, which consists of twoilongitu'din'al bars'gO 0, carried by crossbars or.,levers- DD, and so located that one of the longitudinal bars or rests G C will be Serial No. 646,165. (No model.)

on each side of the seat-frame. The cross-bars or levers D D are located one at each end and are supported by suitable frames or supports carried by the end frames, upon which they are adapted to rock. 1

In the construction illustrated in the draw- I ings I- have shown the support for the cross bar or ,lever'D'at the inner end of the seat composed of a transverse frame E, supported ,by the longitudinal rails F F of the seatframe, while the pedestal G of the outer side frame constitutes the support for the crossbar or lever D at the outer end of the seat. This construction may, however, be varied, as the particular arrangement or location of the support is not material.

Each of the supports for the cross-bars or levers D Dflis provided with a trifurcate groove or slot H, having one arm a extending upward and the two arms I) 0 extending downward therefrom, one on each side.

The bars or levers D D are provided with two lugs, pins, or projections cl 6, one above the other and so arranged and located that when the upper projection d is in the upwardly-extending portion a of the slot H the lowerprojection 6 will be in either one of the downwardly-extending portions 1) c of the .slot H. From this it results that the frame of the foot-rest B will normally occupy an inclined position, with one bar'elevated so as to be immediately below the seat-frame and the other lowered so as to be near the floor, and thus constitute a rest for the feet of the occupants of the rear seat. The-'foot -rest is automatically locked in this positionagainst further descent, since any efiortftoifurthe'r depress the rear bar (0' inFig; 1) will simply force the pins do against the walls of the grooves a b. .The' footfrest 13 may, however,

he readily rocked by'lowering offth'e front cate groove or slot II and the pins (Z 6 thus constitute an antomatically-locking fulcrum, which locks the foot-rest frame against further downward movement on the fulcrum and sustains the lowered bar in a more or less raised position above the floor. The lowered foot-rest will thus be maintained firmly in position as a support for the feet, and as the opposite bar is elevated under the seat it will not be in position to he accidentally moved. \Vheu the seat-back is shifted, the foot-rest may be rocked so as to bring the lowered bar at the rear of the seat.

As the bar at the front is elevated the space below the front of the seat is left open and unobstructed to receive packages and bag gage, thus avoiding the obstruction of the floor-space in front of the seat.

\Vhile I prefer the details of construction that have been shown, it is apparent that they may be varied without departing from the invention.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Tietters Patent, is as follows:

1. In a car-seat, the combination with end supports, of a roeking-foot-rest frame, and connecting supporting devices between the rocking-foot-rest frame and the end supports, consisting of a trifurcate groove or slot on the end support and a pair of pins or projections on the foot-rest frame adapted to engage simultaneously two arms of the tril'urcate groove or slot.

2. In a car-seat, the combination with end supports each provided with a trifurcate slot or groove II, of a rocking-foot-rest frame 1 composed of two longitudinal foot-rest bars C, C, and cross-bars 1), D each provided with projections (Z, 0, adapted to engage the trifureatc grooves or slots ll, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony of which in vent ion I hereunto set my hand.

N. N. NORCROSS. 

